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TALKING WITH JUDITH MARTIN Oh, Behave

Daniel Handler. Daniel Handler is the author of a novel, The Basic Eight, and a series of childrens books writtten under the name Lemony Snicket

1999

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'CLUCKING is a lost art,\" Judith Martin, aka Miss Manners, says in her latest book. \"Remind Miss Manners to demonstrate it for you sometime.\" Since Newsday readers may never get the chance, this reporter took it upon himself to incite this disapproving sound by banging his soup spoon on his plate in a rude and irritating manner. Martin wiped the corner of her mouth with a plaid handkerchief she keeps tucked in her sleeve and then began to cluck. It was a quiet sound, but like other unlovely noises decried by the author - malfunctioning car alarms, say, or the click of call-waiting - it was more than capable of making one's blood run cold. This reporter stopped that nonsense with the spoon right away.

• الناشر: Newsday LLC
• موضوع: Martin, Judith